Queen Isinbayeva

Russian world record-holding pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva wants to use the World Indoors to prove to the public that she is the uncontested queen of the women's discipline of the last two years.

"It's maybe the most important competition for me", said the Volograd star.

"They're being held in Moscow for the first time, in front of the Russian public, and it is the first time that my parents will come and see me in a big championship".

This competition holds some sentiment for Isinbayeva - it was her efforts in the last World Indoors, in Budapest in 2004 that saw here win her first World title.

Since then she has remained unbeaten in top-class competition, winning the 2004 Olympics, the European Championships indoor and the World Championships outdoors in succession.

At the same time she has not stopped bettering the World Record, in-and-outdoors, including the first even 5metre-plus vault by a woman, in London last July. That did not stop her leaving her trainer Yevgeni Trofimov and home town to link-up with the coach of men's all-time great Sergei Bubka, Vitaly Petrov.

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Isinbayeva now has her eyes set on Bubka's record of 35 consecutive world records and her own World Indoor record of 4m 91.

"I feel that I have generally progressed in our technical plan since I started working with Vitaly", said Isinbayena.

"In Birmingham (where she won with a jump of 4m 79), I was too tired and then I had a long break which diminished by technical capacity., she explained after her last two wins saw her fail to clear 4m 80.

However that should not be too much of a threat, with her closest rival - the Pole Anna Rogowska - having never jumped higher than 4m 80.

"I'm not thinking about my rivals," Isinbayeva concluded. "I'm only focused on my own performances."

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